At 08:11 AM 3/19/2002, Edwin Bogert wrote:
>I have this HP Vectra XA desktop that has 200mhz cpu,3.0gb hd, video card and a lan
>card. It came with Win 95 installed and had the hd partitioned 84% & 16% respectively
>with FAT16. I fdisked the hard drive,removed the partitions and restablished a logical
>dos partition containing fat32 and 100%. I then formatted the hd then restarted with a
>win98 boot disk and win98 cdrom and the install went quite well except in the very final
>stages of detecting hardware. Upon restart, I boot from hard disk and after the windows
>screen comes up, the screen turns black with the message" windows protected-you must
>restart your computer". and below that it says 32.vxd missing/not loading. Does anybody
>know what could be causing this? I've re-installed and restarted on this machine
>numerous times with the same results. Is it hopeless?


I have experienced this issue before, though it has been quite a
while.   I runs in my mind that it involves your Network card.  Try
removing it and then restarting.   I believe the system misidentified
your lan card and installed the wrong driver...   and then it locks
when trying to install the driver for it.

Like I said, it has been a while on this one and I may be off base...
but, it cannot hurt to try.

     Bob Wright
The NOSPIN Group
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